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  Scientists discover monster black hole, 70 times bigger than Sun

  Science | November 28, 2019 13:17 IST

  Until just a few years ago, stellar black holes could only be discovered when they gobbled up gas from a companion star, the researchers said. This process creates powerful X-ray emissions, detectable from the Earth, that reveal the presence of the collapsed object, they said.

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  Pune-based student creates violent black hole flares

  Science | October 12, 2019 21:30 IST

  The black hole system studied is named MAXI J1820+070 and was first discovered in early 2018. About 10,000 light years away in our own Milky Way, it has the mass of about seven suns.

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  Incredibly rare! Black hole shreds star as huge as Sun

  Science | September 27, 2019 13:49 IST

  NASA said that the tidal disruption event was discovered by the ASAS-SN -- a worldwide network of 20 robotic telescopes headquartered at Ohio State University (OSU) in the US on January 29.

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  40-year-old black hole mystery solved by 'best ever' simulation

  Science | June 06, 2019 11:47 IST

  The finding solves a longstanding mystery, originally presented by Nobel Prize-winning physicist John Bardeen and astrophysicist Jacobus Petterson in 1975.

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  Black Hole Memes: Social media army turns first image into hilarious memes

  Trending | April 13, 2019 19:57 IST

  It's funny how the efforts of hundreds of astronomers have been converted into memes.

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  Picture was clear, but black hole’s name a little fuzzy

  Science | April 13, 2019 18:12 IST

  The newly pictured supermassive black hole is a beast with no name, at least not an official one. And what happens next could be cosmically confusing.  

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  First ever blackhole images extraordinary feat: Indian scientists

  Science | April 11, 2019 17:52 IST

  Indian scientists have hailed the compilation of the first ever real images of a blackhole as an "extraordinary feat" that sheds more light on the mysterious, warped region of the space-time fabric and how galaxies like our Milky Way evolve over time.

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  Shoojit Sircar's tweet about black hole gets a hilarious response from Amitabh Bachchan

  Celebrities | April 11, 2019 14:45 IST

  Amitabh Bachchan is on a roll! His latest tweet directed to Shoojit Sircar is a proof.

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  Scientists reveal first image ever made of a black hole

  Science | April 10, 2019 19:29 IST

  Assembling data gathered by eight radio telescopes around the world, astronomers created the picture showing the violent neighborhood around a supermassive black hole, the light-sucking monsters of the universe theorized by Einstein more than a century ago and confirmed by observations for decades.

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  83 supermassive black holes found in early universe

  Science | March 14, 2019 13:59 IST

  "It is remarkable that such massive dense objects were able to form so soon after the Big Bang," said Michael Strauss, a professor at Princeton University in the US

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  Believe it or not! Scientists may have seen birth of black hole | DETAILS INSIDE

  Science | January 14, 2019 16:15 IST

  Researchers from Northwestern University in the US are getting closer to understanding the mysteriously bright object that burst in the northern sky this summer.

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  Now, explore supermassive black hole through new VR simulation

  Science | November 20, 2018 9:37 IST

  The scientists used recent astrophysical models of Sagittarius A* to create a series of images that were then put together to create a 360 degree virtual reality simulation of the black hole, that can be viewed on widely available VR consoles.

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  AI helps track down mysterious cosmic signals; searching for extraterrestrial civilizations

  Science | September 12, 2018 12:51 IST

  Researchers are also applying the successful machine-learning algorithm to find new kinds of signals that could be coming from extraterrestrial civilisations.

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  Astronomers spot giant black hole, 20 million times massive than Sun, eating up star

  Science | June 18, 2018 16:27 IST

  The scientists tracked the event with radio and infrared telescopes, in a pair of colliding galaxies 150 million light-years from Earth.

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  LIGO, NASA research of neutron collision indicate birth of new black hole

  Science | June 04, 2018 12:19 IST

  It is being estimated that the gravitational waves detected last year may have led to the lowest mass black hole ever found, says the scientist who analysed data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory.

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  Astronomers discover orbiting supermassive black holes

  June 28, 2017 16:14 IST

  In what is being hailed as a "groundbreaking discovery", astronomers have for the first time observed two supermassive black holes orbiting around each other in a distant galaxy.

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  Glimpse of Black Hole by the illumination of Big Bang: Astronomers

  World | February 17, 2016 18:28 IST

  Washington: Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have discovered a jet from a very distant super-massive black hole being illuminated by the oldest light in the universe.The discovery shows that black holes with powerful jets

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  NASA finding bolsters Indian theory on black hole

  India | November 24, 2015 18:37 IST

  Bangalore: An Indian astrophysicist says the recent observation by NASA scientists of giant flares of X-rays from a black hole confirms his theory that the so-called black holes are not "true" black holes but actually

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  Black hole winds carry more energy than a trillion suns

  World | February 20, 2015 11:17 IST

  New Delhi: When most people think of supermassive black holes, they think of large, destructive forces sucking up everything which gets in its field of gravity. However, researches have now discovered that they may have

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  Black hole producing mysterious particles: NASA

  World | November 14, 2014 11:55 IST

  Washington: The giant black hole at the center of the Milky Way may be producing mysterious particles called neutrinos, say NASA scientists.Neutrinos are tiny particles that carry no charge and interact very weakly with electrons